Nokia to offer KOffice based office viewer for Nokia N900
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by Apocalypso » 17 Sep 2009, 16:24
Nokia To Offer KOffice Based Office Viewer for Nokia N900
The KOffice team proudly announced today that Nokia has packaged their cross-platform office suite for Maemo 5 environment with addition of the new and finger friendly Maemo 5 UI.
This particularly means that KOffice is now fully compatible with the latest Maemo device but due the numerous bugs in this early beta stage it will not be embedded directly into the device and will be made available for download as 3rd party application in a typical Linux’s 'release early and often' policy.
Yeah I know, it doesn't sounds that brilliant but early and frequent releases are a critical part of the open source development model that works to your advantage and opens communication pathways between developers and potential users and helps them to focus on the important features, optimizations and cru... .. .
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KOffice based office viewer for Nokia N900 - full story
Sincerely yours,
Teo
The KOffice team proudly announced today that Nokia has packaged their cross-platform office suite for Maemo 5 environment with addition of the new and finger friendly Maemo 5 UI.
This particularly means that KOffice is now fully compatible with the latest Maemo device but due the numerous bugs in this early beta stage it will not be embedded directly into the device and will be made available for download as 3rd party application in a typical Linux’s 'release early and often' policy.
Yeah I know, it doesn't sounds that brilliant but early and frequent releases are a critical part of the open source development model that works to your advantage and opens communication pathways between developers and potential users and helps them to focus on the important features, optimizations and cru... .. .
Read more:
KOffice based office viewer for Nokia N900 - full story
Sincerely yours,
Teo
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by abuosaid » 17 Sep 2009, 20:04
NZtechfreak wrote:Cool - now I just need some office software with editing...
but u can't edit not that good , Based Office (Viewer) why.
by the way i like open office and i think it is better
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by Zvjer » 17 Sep 2009, 22:30
openoffice is a bit too heavy for a mobile phone
is nokia not planning to give us editing possibilities with koffice?
is nokia not planning to give us editing possibilities with koffice?
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by Apocalypso » 18 Sep 2009, 05:43
Zvjer wrote:openoffice is a bit too heavy for a mobile phone
is nokia not planning to give us editing possibilities with koffice?
I asked that but I'm still waiting for answer.
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hmmm my question too.aren't they going to include editing function?could not trust nokia with anything.they always have plans to mar the enjoyment.please let us know what they answer!
by Nokia 5700 » 21 Sep 2009, 19:30
KOffice looks great on normal Linux.
Especially its backgrounds..
Especially its backgrounds..
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by DM » 22 Sep 2009, 00:41
Hopefully this brings editing. I'm moving to Maemo soon, so i'll need some good Office Apps!
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